Pardon me ...

Thank you for being a friend.

Your eyes did not deceive you, Rob. The front seats do not match in color. I’d say they must have reupholstered the driver’s seat due to wear, but how much wear could it have picked up in 16,000 miles?

“Damnit! Why didn’t I think of that?”

This is the perfect car to meet girls.

I was stuck there for 12 days.  Lovely place. 

I’ve been fortunate to travel a lot and Norway remains the most beautiful place I’ve visited. It’s also absurdly expensive, which made the trip kind of stressful.

looking forward to going back. My mother in law is norwegian so my wife still has family there. It was nice.

I love the early 60's vettes but honestly their looks is really all they have going for them. They’re not great cars to drive from a handling stand point, and reliability is what you’d expect for a car of its age.

Yeah, back in the 80s/90s, every maker had at least one convertible in a mid-range sedan or cheaper. Chrysler had the Le Baron and cousins, GM had the Caviler Z24 and even a convertible Geo Metro LSI, and Ford had Mustangs and Thunderbirds.

True. Must be cocaine and a very foldable hooker then.

I’m sure everyone’s noticed that about half of what’s left are exotics and most of the rest are luxury/high performance offerings. Of the only relatively attainable convertibles, many of are jeep-like things. So that leaves us with the Miata, the Mini Cooper, the Mustang and the Camaro for relatively “normal”…

C-5M Loadmaster here, it’s a combination of factors but in the Air Force we use a standard weight for passengers (more for soldiers with gear, etc). We have a record of the aircraft being weighed and then plug numbers into a weight and balance form (Form F) to determine overall weight and center of gravity. On the C-5…

Well then he’s not going to like the way he looks. 

No, they already felt like they’d survived hell

Well, my engineering laptop is around 3k in parts alone, let alone for all the time IT needs to set it up.

No sensors, just math, passengers + luggage + cargo + fuel and crew’s approval.

“it’s going to have to work really hard to cool the place down. The compressor, fan, and other components will get a workout. Running it at night when the temperature is much lower means it won’t experience so much wear and tear,”

Does this line of reasoning also extend to ending fossil fuel subsidies which are several times larger than EV subsidies?

RIP Jeep. You were a solid adventure. Gone too soon.